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Right now ovl_inode stores inode pointer for lower inode. This helps with quickly getting lower inode given overlay inode (ovl_inode_lower()). Now with metadata only copy-up, we can have metacopy inode in middle layer as well and inode containing data can be different from ->lower. I need to be able to open the real file in ovl_open_realfile() and for that I need to quickly find the lower data inode. Hence store lower data inode also in ovl_inode. Also provide an helper ovl_inode_lowerdata() to access this field. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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